Sushmita Sen (born 19 November 1975) is an Indian film actress, model and the winner of the Miss Universe pageant of 1994. She was the first Indian to win the crown.Sushmita plays the role of a successful supermodel called Shimmer in Dulha Mil Gaya; the film was a major commercial failure that year.

She, as a single woman of only 25 years of age, was not viewed as socially acceptable to obtain the guardianship of the baby. However, the High Court of Bombay quashed the appeal and she obtained gain of cause. On 13 January 2010, she adopted a three-month-old girl and named her Alisah. Sen was in a relationship with actor Randeep Hooda from 2004, They broke up their relation in 2006.

• In 1994, after she won the Miss India crown, Aishwarya Rai went backstage and broke down.
• In 2012, she was robbed in Athens, Greece, she lost her passport, credit cards and other documents at the airport, which made it difficult for her to prove her identity.